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Seminar 2: At the Intersection of Rhetorics and Feminisms

"At the Intersection of Rhetorics and Feminisms" will provide an interdisciplinary overview of feminist rhetorical advances over the past thirty years, particularly in the ways feminism and rhetoric intersect with class, religion, gender, race, sexuality, nationality, and/or disability. Feminist rhetorical practices now invigorate law, medicine, politics, argument, delivery (the un/spoken, written, visual, and/or electronic), research methods and methodologies, teaching (especially of rhetoric), mentoring, and administration—all scenes that offer generative responses to traditional, hegemonic rhetorical practices. This seminar will identify and introduce significant research methods at and methodological approaches to this intersection.

Each day of the seminar will be divided between seminar-style discussions of assigned readings and workshop discussions of participants’ research interests. Participants will be expected to submit a working draft of a research project in late April that will be shared with all other seminar participants. In these ways, seminarians will both cultivate a rich understanding of these disciplinary intersections as well as develop viable research projects (dissertations, articles, book manuscripts, edited collections, and/or grant proposals).